Art Visit #2

For my second art visit I chose to go to the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

The Exhibit
1.) Their was a couple exhibits going on at the time of my visit which included Celebrating James Litz, Moxie and Mayhem: Acquisitions for a New Museum, Camaraderie: Burchfield, Cleveland & New York 1912-1950, and Charles E. Burchfield: Pine Trees and Oriental Poppies to name a few.

2.) The theme of the James Litz exhibit was remembering James Litz for he recently passed away and looking at his characters and scenes we remember him by. The Moxie and Mayhem exhibit is about the cultural diversity of the area that we live in. The Camaraderie exhibit was about Burchfield's connection with his two colleagues and the Pine Tree and Oriental Poppies collection was about Burchfield's sense of the simply things in nature.

The Physical Space
1.) All the exhibits had dim lighting in them but had lighting focused on the pictures so you could better see and focus on them.

2.) Most of the walls were all painted white. I believe this is so you wouldn't focus on a color of the wall and you would focus on the art work.

4.) The viewer can walk through each gallery along the walls in the same path and look at every piece of art work in the gallery.

The Art Work

1.) The art works were organized by each different exhibit and for the permanent exhibits they were organized by which type of medium was used to create them.

2.) The art works are similar because they were either done by the same artist or they were created by the same medium.

3.) The art works are different because two could be right next to each other because they were both oil paintings, however they could have completely different themes to them.

4.) The art works were framed in a way that you would not be distracted by the frame work of them. In most of them a frame could not be seen by the person looking at the piece.

5.) The art work is identified and labeled by a little white box next to each piece that would list the artist name, the name of the piece, the medium used to create it, and the size of the piece.

6.) The art work is spread out between each piece enough so that you can clearly look at one piece without having to see the next piece out of the corner of your eye.







What did you think of visiting the Gallery and purposefully looking at the exhibition from a different perspective - the physical space, the architecture, theme, etc.?

When you look at the actual physical space and how the gallery is set up it definitely bring a different prospective out. For me I did notice that the lighting was very dim but was used perfectly to do its job. I also noticed that there was a lot of empty wall space used. In my own opinion they could fit more pieces of work in the gallery without making it look to cluttered. It was a much different perspective than going and just focusing on the art work.